The Border South
...slavery dominated, secession sentiment boiled, and the humid, jungle-like climate welcomed the "slave drain" from Virginia in the 1850s. The idea that the Border South was not Southern, as tempting...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...Travelers Car Club as the parade passed our studio. We were struck by the vibrancy of the club and the parade's manifestation of the parallel black and white worlds within...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...character of Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud.2The films in the Antoine Doinel series are: The 400 Blows (1959 feature), Antoine and Colette (1962 short), Stolen Kisses (1968 feature), Bed...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Elemore Morgan, Jr. Interview with Sarah Jackson and Pierre Cazaubon, Rob Rombout, 2006. This video is a portrait of Elemore Morgan Jr., widely acknowledged as the foremost contemporary Louisiana landscape...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
Review The yeoman farmer is a central figure in debates over the historical dispossessions that created the place we now call Appalachia. For historians like Ron Eller, these self-sufficient small...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...city's HIV "epidemic" to that of African countries. "Downtown Atlanta is as bad as Zimbabwe or Harare or Durban," says Dr. Carlos del Rio, co-director of Emory University's Center for...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...in at least one corner of the South.105Historian Michael Willrich makes a similar argument about Progressive Era anti-vaccinationists in Michael Willrich, Pox: An American History (New York: Penguin Press, 2011)....
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
Children's Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, July 3, 2012. Photograph by Kindra Clineff. Courtesy of Flickr user Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism photostream. Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 2.0. My childhood...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...to the shootings at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on June 17, 2015, the LDHI team is partnering with Toni Carrier from Lowcountry Africana and Emanuel AME church leaders to develop...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...Art in 2010 and includes over fifty photographic portraits and audio interviews with New Orleans rappers, DJs, producers, photographers, label owners, promoters, record store personnel, journalists, and other parties involved...